PC slow internet speed in same roop with laptop with good speed in same room

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Hello

So today I decided to share my issue of my newly built PC having terrible internet speed, 60 kb/s on a steam download, while my laptop pulls 2mb/s with ease in the same room. My room is badly located from the router and getting an Ethernet cable is not an option, but I don't understand why my laptop has fine internet.

network card specs:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-11_TL-WDN4800.html

As you can see the card is pretty good, 450 MBps is enough considering max on my network is 60 mbps anyway. So the card is not a problem nor is distance (laptop does fine). So could it be windows 10 or a driver issue that is causing the trouble? I'm not familiar with windows 10 and had trouble connecting to the internet (It seems I had to use the software provided with the network card to connect to the internet?), however on the hallway my PC's internet speed matches that of my laptop.

I hope this is informative enough and thanks in advance.
 
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Was the wireless speed an issue on the desktop *before* you went to Windows 10? If not, then it could be related but I haven't heard on such issues -- not working at all is an issue many older adapters have with W10.

I would experiment with the placement of the desktop to the extent possible, it may be a totally unrelated issue to W10, as wireless can be finicky. Have you tried the 5GHz band and the 2.4? And what model is your router?

I would download and run the free version of the wifi analyzer inSSIDer from HERE and run it on both the desktop and laptop to see what kind of signal strength you are getting on each and to look at all surrounding networks.

If all else fails, but a pair of AV1200 TP-Link 8010 powerline...

RealBeast

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Was the wireless speed an issue on the desktop *before* you went to Windows 10? If not, then it could be related but I haven't heard on such issues -- not working at all is an issue many older adapters have with W10.

I would experiment with the placement of the desktop to the extent possible, it may be a totally unrelated issue to W10, as wireless can be finicky. Have you tried the 5GHz band and the 2.4? And what model is your router?

I would download and run the free version of the wifi analyzer inSSIDer from HERE and run it on both the desktop and laptop to see what kind of signal strength you are getting on each and to look at all surrounding networks.

If all else fails, but a pair of AV1200 TP-Link 8010 powerline adapters for around $50 on sale. They are much better than wireless for gaming with very low latency and speeds of well over 200Mbps at a distance.

And don't believe the marketing nonsense about your wireless router or card achieving 450Mbps -- none even do that 4 feet from the router.
 
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